The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre

ISBN-13: 9780521795364 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 288 str.

Kerry Powell

Opis

This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theater. An introduction surveying the historical period of the theater is followed by an essay contextualizing it within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance and production, (including music, actors, stagecraft and audience), plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Types of performances (such as comedy, farce, melodrama) and the economics of the theater are also analyzed.

Recenzje

'All the contributions to this undeniably useful enterprise are sufficiently expert to ensure it a place on undergraduate and graduate reading-lists …'. Journal of Theatre Research International

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface Kerry Powell; Part I. Introduction: Before the curtain Nina Auerbach; Part II. Performance and Context: 1. Actors and acting Joseph W. Donohue Jr.; 2. The show business economy and its discontents Tracy C. Davis; 3. Victorian and Edwardian stagecraft: techniques and issues Russell Jackson; 4. Music for the theatre: style and function in incidental music Michael Pisani; 5. Victorian and Edwardian audiences Jim Davis and Victor Emeljanow; 6. Performing identities: actresses and autobiography Mary Jean Corbett; Part III. Text and Context: 7. Comedy and farce Michael Booth; 8. Encountering melodrama David Mayer; 9. The Music Hall Jacky Bratton; 10. Theatre of the 1890s: Breaking down the barriers Peter Raby; 11. New theatres for a new drama Cary M. Mazer; 12. The fallen woman on stage: maidens, magdalens, and the emancipated female Sos Eltis; 13. Reimagining the theatre: women playwrights of the Victorian and Edwardian period Susan Carlson and Kerry Powell; 14. The East End Theatre Heidi Holder; Index.